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21 January 2006

Issue 2535

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Something nasty in the air

Earth

Something nasty in the air

Features
The rooftop power revolution

Earth

The rooftop power revolution

Features
Free-electron lasers: the next generation

Technology

Free-electron lasers: the next generation

Features
Suspended animation: putting life on hold

Health

Suspended animation: putting life on hold

Features

Table of contents

News

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Gizmo

The US military is attempting to give its pilots super-sharp vision. The Pentagon has awarded a $3.5 million grant to PixelOptics of Roanoke, Virginia, to develop a variable lens for flight goggles that will compensate for subtle optical defects that cannot be corrected with conventional lenses. An array of elements will be individually adjustable to …

News

Earth

The polar road to riches

News

Technology

The attraction of computing by magnets

News

Life

Vintage or vile, wine is all the same after cheese

News

Physics

Atomic oddity decays like no other

News

Health

Cause of hospital pneumonia often misdiagnosed

News

Life

Jungle diva sings to the cheap seats

News

Space

Galaxies flow along web of dark matter

News

Health

HIV resistance carries West Nile virus risk

News

Space

Superfast pulsar breaks the rules

News

Life

Help a fish relax – cut your engine

News

Space

A sharper eye on the sky

News

Technology

Nanotubes don't go snap after all

News

Technology

Digital 'vault' for software patents

News

Space

NASA's man-made meteor sets new standards

News

Soundbites

News

Physics

Bubble fusion makes a comeback

News

Technology

Water will 'walk' uphill under its own steam

News

Earth

This week 26 years ago

News

Earth

Dark future looms for Arctic tundra

News

Space

NASA to return to aeronautical traditions

News

Earth

Clean energy meeting disappoints conservationists

News

Earth

Alaskan oil grab approved

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

One million people, one medical gamble

News

Earth

Genetically modified crops: a decade of disagreement

News

Health

Humans may soon become guinea pigs

News

Life

Stem cell tensions increase

News

Life

Who is messing with your head?

News

Health

Bird flu mutates in Turkey

News

Earth

Big game back in rifle sights

News

Opinion

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

Editorial: A generator in every home

AS countries navigate around competing demands for energy, rising gas and oil prices, security of supply and carbon emissions, one strategy seems to have been overlooked. A house turned into a power plant by fitting photovoltaic panels, a small wind turbine or a gas boiler that also generates electricity may seem trivial next to a …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: The Domesday project

Opinion

Earth

Turning point: Lost city of lime

Opinion

Interview: The outsiders

Opinion

Features

Something nasty in the air

Earth

Something nasty in the air

STOP five people on the street and chances are they will be able to tell you that carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming. Stop another five and ask them about nitrogen emissions, and they will probably stare at you blankly. But a growing number of scientists say that nitrogen is a problem that we ignore …

Features

Earth

The rooftop power revolution

Features

Technology

Free-electron lasers: the next generation

Features

Health

Suspended animation: putting life on hold

Features

More

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

The Conquest of Nature: Water and the making of the modern German landscape

FREDERICK the Great of Prussia (1712-1786) regarded marshland reclamations as "conquests from barbarism". Over 250 years, the German leaders have taken this notion to heart, straightening rivers, draining fens and marshes and building high dams and hydroelectric schemes, sometimes at tremendous cost to the environment and human life. The wild Rhine has been transformed into …

Books & Arts

Space

Civilised Life in the Universe: Scientists on intelligent extraterrestrials

Books & Arts

Physics

A World of Fire: A heretic, an aristocrat and the race to discover oxygen

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Stinging caterpillars

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback

Dopey dinosaur dates WHAT do creationists make of dinosaurs? The Arkansas-based Museum of Earth History ( www.moeh.org ) has some surprising insights. You might have thought, for example, that the dinosaurs couldn't fit on Noah's ark – but the museum reveals that God carefully selected pairs of young dinosaurs small enough to fit on board, …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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